Words From This Body | Ailey Jolie
This is where I write the words of my body... words intended to inspire you to know yourself intimately, make friends with messiness, act fully, and live life fully within the wisdom of your very own body, too.
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The Body Beneath People Pleasing with Heidi Stokes (opens the original)
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What happens when you learn to read everyone else before you learn to read yourself?In this episode, Ailey sits down with registered clinical counsellor and yoga therapist, Heidi Stokes, to explore how the nervous system shapes our experience of safety. Together, they look at how easily we can become focused on reading the room while losing touch with what is happening inside our own bodies.Heidi shares how patterns like people pleasing can develop as ways of staying connected and protected. The
How to Have Sex Like Yourself (opens the original)
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But here’s what no one tells you: most of us have never actually felt what authentic desire feels like in our bodies. We’ve been performing desire for so long, we’ve mistaken the performance for the real thing.I need to tell you something about sexual liberation that might make you uncomfortable.The sex-positive movement promised liberation but delivered performance. What gets marketed as liberation is often just repackaged disconnection. Better branding, fewer clothes, same disconnection from a
Wellness Culture And The Myth Of Optimization with Amanda White (opens the original)
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When does wellness become another way of trying to fix yourself?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Amanda White, licensed professional counsellor and author of Not Drinking Tonight, to explore how the pursuit of wellness can quietly pull us further away from our bodies. Together, they question the promise that the right routine or enough self improvement will eventually create a version of ourselves who no longer struggles.Amanda shares how her own recovery shaped the way she understands avoi
Trusting Your Intuitive Wisdom with Carissa Schumacher (opens the original)
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How do you know when to trust what your body is telling you?In part two of this conversation, Ailey welcomes back Carissa Schumacher, a neuroscience trained forensic psychic medium and sacred ceremony facilitator, to explore the relationship between intuition, embodiment, and self trust. Together, they examine how we can reconnect with our inner knowing without losing our grounding.Carissa shares her perspective on the different ways intuition can be experienced and why sensitivity is both a gif
Securely Attached Couples are Only Emotionally Attuned About 30% of the Time (opens the original)
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The other 70% of the time, they miss each other.One moves toward closeness while the other draws inward. A face stays blank a beat too long, or a need goes unread and nobody notices.When Tronick and … Read more
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